LUN address is essentially how people used to address SCSI devices back in the day we had these devices more in use. However, SCSI was taken as an abstraction layer for many Unix and Unix-like systems, so it still common to see LUN addresses in use. In Serenity, we don't really provide such abstraction layer, and therefore until now, we didn't use LUNs too. However (again), this changes, as we want to let users to address their devices under SysFS easily. LUNs make sense in that regard, because they can be easily adapted to different interfaces besides SCSI. For example, for legacy ATA hard drive being connected to the first IDE controller which was enumerated on the PCI bus, and then to the primary channel as slave device, the LUN address would be 0:0:1. To make this happen, we add unique ID number to each StorageController, which increments by 1 for each new instance of StorageController. Then, we adapt the ATA and NVMe devices to use these numbers and generate LUN in the construction time. |
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SerenityOS
Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.
About
SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.
Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s *nix. This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like.
You can watch videos of the system being developed on YouTube:
FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions
Screenshot
Features
- Modern x86 32-bit and 64-bit kernel with pre-emptive multi-threading
- Browser with JavaScript, WebAssembly, and more (check the spec compliance for JS, CSS, and WASM)
- Security features (hardware protections, limited userland capabilities, W^X memory,
pledge
&unveil
, (K)ASLR, OOM-resistance, web-content isolation, state-of-the-art TLS algorithms, ...) - System services (WindowServer, LoginServer, AudioServer, WebServer, RequestServer, CrashServer, ...) and modern IPC
- Good POSIX compatibility (LibC, Shell, syscalls, signals, pseudoterminals, filesystem notifications, standard Unix utilities, ...)
- POSIX-like virtual file systems (/proc, /dev, /sys, /tmp, ...) and ext2 file system
- Network stack and applications with support for IPv4, TCP, UDP; DNS, HTTP, Gemini, IMAP, NTP
- Profiling, debugging and other development tools (Kernel-supported profiling, detailed program analysis with software emulation in UserspaceEmulator, CrashReporter, interactive GUI playground, HexEditor, HackStudio IDE for C++ and more)
- Libraries for everything from cryptography to OpenGL, audio, JavaScript, GUI, playing chess, ...
- Support for many common and uncommon file formats (PNG, JPEG, GIF, MP3, WAV, FLAC, ZIP, TAR, PDF, QOI, Gemini, ...)
- Unified style and design philosophy, flexible theming system, custom (bitmap and vector) fonts
- Games (Solitaire, Minesweeper, 2048, chess, Conway's Game of Life, ...) and demos (CatDog, Starfield, Eyes, mandelbrot set, WidgetGallery, ...)
- Every-day GUI programs and utilities (Spreadsheet with JavaScript, TextEditor, Terminal, PixelPaint, various multimedia viewers and players, Mail, Assistant, Calculator, ...)
... and all of the above are right in this repository, no extra dependencies, built from-scratch by us :^)
Additionally, there are over two hundred ports of popular open-source software, including games, compilers, Unix tools, multimedia apps and more.
How do I read the documentation?
Man pages are available online at man.serenityos.org. These pages are generated from the Markdown source files in Base/usr/share/man
and updated automatically.
When running SerenityOS you can use man
for the terminal interface, or help
for the GUI.
Code-related documentation can be found in the documentation folder.
How do I build and run this?
See the SerenityOS build instructions. Serenity runs on Linux, macOS (aarch64 might be a challenge), Windows (with WSL2) and many other *Nixes with hardware or software virtualization.
Get in touch and participate!
Join our Discord server: SerenityOS Discord
Before opening an issue, please see the issue policy.
A general guide for contributing can be found in CONTRIBUTING.md
.
Authors
- Andreas Kling - awesomekling
- Robin Burchell - rburchell
- Conrad Pankoff - deoxxa
- Sergey Bugaev - bugaevc
- Liav A - supercomputer7
- Linus Groh - linusg
- Ali Mohammad Pur - alimpfard
- Shannon Booth - shannonbooth
- Hüseyin ASLITÜRK - asliturk
- Matthew Olsson - mattco98
- Nico Weber - nico
- Brian Gianforcaro - bgianfo
- Ben Wiederhake - BenWiederhake
- Tom - tomuta
- Paul Scharnofske - asynts
- Itamar Shenhar - itamar8910
- Luke Wilde - Lubrsi
- Brendan Coles - bcoles
- Andrew Kaster - ADKaster
- thankyouverycool - thankyouverycool
- Idan Horowitz - IdanHo
- Gunnar Beutner - gunnarbeutner
- Tim Flynn - trflynn89
- Jean-Baptiste Boric - boricj
- Stephan Unverwerth - sunverwerth
- Max Wipfli - MaxWipfli
- Daniel Bertalan - BertalanD
- Jelle Raaijmakers - GMTA
- Sam Atkins - AtkinsSJ
- Tobias Christiansen - TobyAsE
- Lenny Maiorani - ldm5180
- sin-ack - sin-ack
- Jesse Buhagiar - Quaker762
- Peter Elliott - Petelliott
- Karol Kosek - krkk
- Mustafa Quraish - mustafaquraish
- David Tuin - davidot
- Leon Albrecht - Hendiadyoin1
- Tim Schumacher - timschumi
- Marcus Nilsson - metmo
- Gegga Thor - Xexxa
- kleines Filmröllchen - kleinesfilmroellchen
- Kenneth Myhra - kennethmyhra
- Maciej - sppmacd
- Sahan Fernando - ccapitalK
- Benjamin Maxwell - MacDue
And many more! See here for a full contributor list. The people listed above have landed more than 100 commits in the project. :^)
License
SerenityOS is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.